shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration



My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
  1. $10.49 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$16.95
New Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
25 Local Warehouse Anthologies- Essays
25 Remote Warehouse Anthologies- Essays

More copies of this ISBN:

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

by Lee (edt) Gutkind

In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres-from poetry and fiction to nonfiction-symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity. A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.

Synopsis:

Gutkind collects 25 examples of narrative nonfiction--liberated journalism that invites writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects--all originally published in "Creative Nonfiction," the journal that he founded in 1994.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780393326659
Subtitle:
The Best of Creative Nonfiction
Editor:
Gutkind, Lee
Introduction:
Dillard, Annie
Editor:
Gutkind, Lee
Introduction:
Dillard, Annie
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Journalism
Subject:
American prose literature
Subject:
American prose literature -- 20th century.
Subject:
Journalism -- United States.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
November 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
440
Dimensions:
824x556x117 96

Other books you might like

  1. $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  4. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Moviegoer

    Walker Percy
  5. $10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison
  6. $7.75 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.